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... or other army. It was Bastille Day so of course it wasn’t going to be open. Later I tried to google is but couldn’t find any reference to it in several kinds of searches. I’d love to know what it is and/or was.

We went on St Dizier for Bastille Day. St Dizier is a good sized town with a couple of big industries and it is one of the rare French towns that seems to have no interest at all in tourists on in its canal traffic. There are ...

... the bones of 130,000 unidentified soldiers from the battlefields from WWI. A plaque overlooking the vast cemetery showed that the area was dedicated in 1984 by Francois Mitterand and Helmut Kohl now friends in a time of peace. As temperatures soared to 33 degrees, we struggled to keep walking but still managed to see some original trenches as well as a memorial to the village of Fleury which was completely wiped ...

... within about half an hour of Camping Breuils when we spotted several coaches and support vehicles bearing logos for cycling teams on the opposite carriageway and groups of spectators on the side roads bearing flags. This got us thinking about 'Le Tour' and if it was passing through the area, since for once we hadn't booked ahead, would we have a pitch? A quick 'phone call put our minds at rest and we were soon setting up once again. As the fridge and cupboards were ...

... summer - a win win situation. The lake at its peak in the winter covers up to 4,800 hectares and in the summer can shrink to 1,000 hectares. After visiting the lake we went home for some lunch - scrambled eggs of course! Then we went to a hippodrome where there was a horse competition and we were supporting the blue team. There were 1, 2 or 4 horses pulling a cart with people on ...

... Sabine and Patrick who had driven 3hrs from Paris to greet us at their holiday farmhouse that they rent out. It was amusing to watch Patrick greet Annabel and me in the traditional French way with two kisses on the cheek then Annabel quietly whispered to me "Mum-his beard was so tickly!" We settled in quickly and sat down to have a drink and chat with them before they headed off to his parents' house in St Dizier for the night. The kids played some soccer outside and ...